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[Dark Of Night]

Hey,

I just wanted some opinions on the meaning of a dream I had a few months ago.

When I was a kid, I used to be a lucid dreamer. I was having at least two lucid dreams a night. When I was 12, I started to have really bad insomnias, I would not sleep more than 2 or 3 hours a night, so I stopped having lucid dreams. I still have insomnias and a light sleep today, but it's not as bad as it used to be six years ago. For the past year, I've been gaining some lucidity in my dreams. I'm able to control them, but I'm still not able to realize I'm dreaming even though I know there's something not right. Last year, I experienced sleep paralysis. I had a violent crisis, that lasted long, and I got all the different types of hallucinations: not only could I feel the dark entities of my hallucinations in my room, but I could see them, hear them, and feel them grabbing my arms and leggs, dragging me in a dark corridor. Since that night, my dreams have become even more vivid. And a few months ago, I died in one of my dreams.

I usually wake up right before I die in my dreams, since the human mind is not supposed to be able to represent what's dying like. In my dream, I had asked a friend who was a sniper to kill me, when I wasn't expecting it. I was in Lyon, a French city, near the place I had been living in for the year (I used to live near Marseille, but my parents made me go to Lyon for my studies, which has been really hard on me) when I got shot. It was snowing. My friend had missed the heart. I remember the pain from the shooting, the numbness when the blood loss had become too important. I remember falling on the snow. It didn't even hurt while I was dying. I could feel my heart beating slower and slower, my breathing getting hard, and the world fading away. And I felt it. I felt that last second when the heart stops beating. I felt my consciouness drifting away. And for a few second, I felt what I imagine is after death. I'm an atheist, so I don't believe there's anything once we're dead. I think we just cease to exist. And in my dream, I felt it. I felt that last second of consciousness, and then I felt the void, the nil, the nothingness. It scared the hell out of me. And then, it's like it was too much for my mind to take, and I felt myself reintegrate my body. I woke up on the snow, still hurting, still bleeding, but I was able to stand up. I stood up and wandered under the falling snow. Nobody could see me. I went to my friend's appartement to tell her she'd missed the shot. When I got there, she was crying, and she was talking to someone. She couldn't see me. She kept saying she was sorry, she was so sorry, and the person she was talking to was conforting her, and was telling her they had found the body. I went back to where I had been shot. When I got there, it <was full of cops. There was a body lying on the snow. I went to this body. It was covered by a sheet. I looked under the sheet, and I saw my face. I saw myself, lying dead on the ground. And then I realized that I was truly dead, and that the being I thought I was, the consciousness I thought I had, were just pieces of me holding on onto people's memories of me. I guess you could say I was some kind of ghost. I woke up right after that.

The most surprising part is that I enjoyed that dream. When I woke up, I was feeling good, I was feeling at peace. I've been longing ever since to have a similar dream. I want you to know that I do not want to die for real, I like being alive. But this dream, it was just so...I don't know how to put it.

So I was wondering if any how you ever had that kind of dream, and what it could mean.

Again, I apologize for any mistakes I could have made. I'm French, so my English is not perfect (yet!)

[Hilander]

That's really unusual to have a dream like that.  I don't know what it could of meant, hopefully not a premonition.  Maybe, just guessing here, you were worried about passing a subject at school and it came out in a dream as death instead of failing.  I've had some strange dreams before but never about me dying.

[Professor T]

Hi,
    Your english writing is very good.. No need to apologise..

Just thought I'd say that dying in a dream isn't a literal thing. Dreaming of Death/dying means transformation and change in your life. It may mean you are going through some positive changes right now or making new discoveries about yourself. Perhaps you are starting something new & inspiring. The fact that you woke up to feel good & at peace is also a positive thing.

If the dream was pre-cognitive (future), it's just saying the same thing really, positive changes ahead, new discoveries..
Perhaps you will be questioning your spirituality.

[Dark Of Night]

I don't believe in pre-cognitive dreams.
But I like the idea that my dream was about changes and transformation. I can't remember exactly when I had that dream, but I do remember I had this dream around the time I started planning my "rebellion" against my parents. I let them no choice but to let me go back to our house in the south of France and study what I wanted to study and not what they wanted me to study. So I had that dream right before I went through a really rough time with my parents that led to changes in my relationship with them, and mostly led to deep changes in my life, changes I knew would happen.
Thanks for your answers!

[A Shadow]

It can be easy to say it has meaning, and just as easy to say it was nothing. I dare say real death is beyond what our dreams can show us.

I once died in a dream, I was hacked to death by a huge battleaxe and when I died I floated out my body and watched as it was chopped into pieces for easy storage. I examine my own corpse for a few moments before I woke up.

Edited by A Silent Shadow, 11 August 2012 - 10:53 AM.

[Professor T]

Dark Of Night, on 11 August 2012 - 08:23 AM, said:

I don't believe in pre-cognitive dreams.
But I like the idea that my dream was about changes and transformation. I can't remember exactly when I had that dream, but I do remember I had this dream around the time I started planning my "rebellion" against my parents. I let them no choice but to let me go back to our house in the south of France and study what I wanted to study and not what they wanted me to study. So I had that dream right before I went through a really rough time with my parents that led to changes in my relationship with them, and mostly led to deep changes in my life, changes I knew would happen.
Thanks for your answers!

Thanks for the feedback..
Just wondering? Did your friend (the sniper) play a big part in this change in your life?

[Dark Of Night]

No, she did not. Not really. I mean, I told her about it, but several of my friends knew about it too. Nah, I guess she was the sniper in my dream because she had told me about a video game in which you play a sniper and have to take into account lots of data to hit the target (spedd of wind, distance...), and how she liked this game and I should try it.

[Professor T]

Dark Of Night, on 12 August 2012 - 06:49 AM, said:

No, she did not. Not really. I mean, I told her about it, but several of my friends knew about it too. Nah, I guess she was the sniper in my dream because she had told me about a video game in which you play a sniper and have to take into account lots of data to hit the target (spedd of wind, distance...), and how she liked this game and I should try it.

Interesting... I would have thought otherwise..
Once again, thanks for the feedback.

[brandylin]

I think in your dreams you are visiting a different world. Are you familiar with the Multiverse theory? Where we live many, possibly thousands or hundreds of thousands of lives? Each time we make a decision we slip into a different universe. Here you try to decide to turn right going down the street, in another world you turn left.

My theory of dreams is that we are getting a glimpse into one of our parallel worlds. I'm a strong believer in the Multiverse theory.  I believe that when you die in a dream, you die in another world. My dreams have always been very vivid. I not only dream in color, but also smell, taste and feel in my dreams. I tend to have different "Worlds" which I visit in my dreams. These dreams are continuations from one night to another. I recall these dreams even years later. When I  die in one of my dreams I never visit that dream world again. I guess dead is dead in every world. My dreams are also lucid. Many times when dreaming, I'll say to my conscious mind "I've been here before, in this dream world, let's see where it leads.I've also figured out that when I dream of something that seems to defy logic its because I'm either watching a movie in my dream or playing a video game in my dream.

When you awaken in the morning, stop before you get up, lay there and try to recall your dream. See if you notice reoccurring themes.

I'm not sure if this helped.

Edited by brandylin, 13 August 2012 - 02:58 AM.